Eduard Baar-Baarenfels

Eduard Baar-Baarenfels (3 November 1885-14 March 1967) was an Austrian politician who was affiliated with the fascist Fatherland Front.

Biography
Eduard Baar-Baarenfels was born in Laibach, Austria-Hungary (now Ljubljana, Slovenia) on 3 November 1885. He served in the Austro-Hungarian Army as a Lieutenant-Colonel, fighting in World War I. In 1929, he became the leader of the Heimwehr paramilitary in Lower Austria, and he became its national chief in 1932. From 1934 to 1935, he was the deputy governor of Lower Austria as a Fatherland Front politician, and he served as Federal Minister for Security and Home Affairs from 1935 to 1936. He also briefly served as Vice-Chancellor under Kurt Schuschnigg in late 1936. After the Anschluss with Nazi Germany, he was interned at the Dachau and Flossenburg concentration camps, and he was released in 1941. He died in Saalfelden in 1967.